AllThingsGerman.net: Oberursel
The latest news in English from Oberursel in the Taunus area of Germany.
Tuesday night is film night at Bluebox Portstraße, located near the U-Bahn stop “Altstadt”.
As the organisation is not a commercial cinema, they are not allowed to advertise which film will be shown in advance. For Tuesday, 30th September, 2014, we are told that it will be a “Heimat Western”. If you do want to know which film will be shown then call 06171 636930 and they will tell you.
The showing starts at 9pm.
The Verbraucherzentrale (consumers’ association) will be offering individual energy saving consultations in the Rathaus in Oberursel on Thursday, 2nd October, 2014.
Appointments cost €5 for 30 minutes, and €2.50 for each 15 minutes after that. They need to be arranged in advance by calling 06171 502-310.
There will be a book flea market in Oberursel’s library on Saturday, 4th October, 2014 between 10am and 1pm with proceeds going to the library’s supporters’ association.
The library is located at one end of the market square in Oberursel, in the Eppsteinerstraße.
The nearest car parks are “Bleiche” and in the Holzweg. The nearest train station is Altstadt (U3).
A tour of the old town (Altstadt) part of Oberursel is being offered on Saturday, 6th September, 2014 at 2pm.
The tour starts in front of the Vortaunusmuseum at the Marktplatz at 2pm and costs €3 per person.
The Seniorentreff in Oberursel will be offering an afternoon of Bingo on Thursday, 2nd October, 2014 between 2.30pm and 4.30pm in the “Altes Hospital” (Hospitalstraße 9).
Anyone who is interested is invited to come along and try their luck!
Blood can be donated at the Red Cross in Oberursel on Saturday, 4th October, 2014 between 3.30pm and 8pm. The Red Cross is located at Marxstraße 28, opposite the U-Bahn station “Lahnstraße”.
To donate you must be healthy and between 18 and 68 years of age. If you have not donated before, then you must not be over 60. You must take some form of identification with you, such as a passport, that contains a photo.
You can read more about what then happens here (in German).
The tower of St.Ursula’s Church in Oberursel will be open to the public on Saturday, 4th October, 2014 between 3pm and 5pm.
The tower contains a museum, the belfry and there is also access to the roof where you can get a breathtaking view across the town and its neighbours.
Entry costs €1.50 for adults and €1.00 for children.
Kittens in one of the rooms at the animals home (Tierheim) at the northern end of Oberursel.
On Friday, 12th September, 2014, Hans Schubert and Marita Kalthoff from the Independent International Association for Russian Blue Breed Cats presented Nicole Vorlauf (right) from the animal home located at the northern end of Oberursel with a donation of €1,000 to support the home’s work with homeless cats.
The money will be used to help cover the costs of keeping the cats, such as for food and vets’ bills, including the cost of castrating them.
The pair have visited a number of animals’ homes in advance before deciding on Oberursel. “I liked it here”, chairman Hans Schubert said. “For the cats, it’s just like being in a living room.”
Nicole Vorlauf explained that it would be another three weeks before the kittens shown could be considered for new owners, and that before anyone is allowed to take one home with them and that she or one of her colleagues visits them at home before releasing the animals. The kittens would only be given out in pairs, unless the new owners already have other cats.
This photo also appeared on 18th September, 2014 in the Oberurseler Woche.
Last Saturday, 20th September, 2014, saw Universal Children’s Day celebrated in Germany and this year the Lions Club Oberursel-Schillerturm had come up with an event together with the town’s “Kinderbüro”: a Drachenfest. And since this year is the year of the twinning anniversaries, it turned into the “1st International Oberursel Drachenfest“.
Drachen is the German word both for a kite and a dragon, and both were present on the field at the end of the Platanenstraße in Stierstadt where the festival took place. One part of the field was roped off for kite-flyers, where the “Drachenclub Aiolos” from Rodgau soon had the first kites in the air and some larger models on the ground, including a dragon-shaped one.
Unfortunately the weather did not play along and so there were not only heavy showers during the day, but a thunderstorm as well. The wind was only slight, so that only a few children used the opportunity to fly their kites.
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